The first Sunday of the term is a get-to-know you day in Burr. Our original plan to travel together down the Thames in luxury on The Waterman has to be postponed when the river level rose after heavy rain, leaving our landing stage submerged,so we took the train. The process of printing out 66 tickets took some time (about ten minutes longer than the journey from Shiplake to Henley) , and produced an impressive amount of cardboard.
The mission was to make sure that everyone in Burr talked to someone new, and that everyone could identify key places in Henley - including the bus stop, railway station, police station and bookshops.
Groups of nine boys and girls had ten facts to discover. Henry Robinson cheerfully identified the biggest book in the window of the Oxfam bookshop, a useful textbook on A level Psychology.
The only contentious issue was the time of the last train back on a Saturday night (some groups may have been reading the Mon-Fri timetable), but as nobody should be out that late anyway, we'll let it pass. Many thanks to the Sixth Formers who led the groups, and to Mr Dolan, Mr Starr, Mr and Mrs Baker, Mrs Foakes and Mrs Lowndes for joining in.
The mission was to make sure that everyone in Burr talked to someone new, and that everyone could identify key places in Henley - including the bus stop, railway station, police station and bookshops.
Groups of nine boys and girls had ten facts to discover. Henry Robinson cheerfully identified the biggest book in the window of the Oxfam bookshop, a useful textbook on A level Psychology.
The only contentious issue was the time of the last train back on a Saturday night (some groups may have been reading the Mon-Fri timetable), but as nobody should be out that late anyway, we'll let it pass. Many thanks to the Sixth Formers who led the groups, and to Mr Dolan, Mr Starr, Mr and Mrs Baker, Mrs Foakes and Mrs Lowndes for joining in.
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